Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Because I have been a hospice volunteer many years, people sometimes assume that my patients and I talk about death a lot. All this talk about control reminded me of my hospice patient named Rose. There are three other ladies in this nursing home who are older than that. Are you ready to die? Wrong again.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

MAY 1, 2022

Henrietta was going to be my new hospice patient, my first at this particular nursing home. Later, she would become my first patient whose health improved so much she was discharged from hospice care. For now, she knew nothing about me, including the fact that I was coming that day to serve as her hospice volunteer.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

JUNE 29, 2022

Missing” is one of sixteen original poems at the end of each chapter in Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes. A hospice volunteer, I wrote it after witnessing the sadness of lonely nursing home residents who were missing the missing.

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JULY 31, 2022

As a hospice volunteer in Detroit, Michigan nursing homes, I viewed dementia as a fluttering bee. There were times when nursing home residents with dementia were rude or violent. I have seen a resident slap a nurse assistant (CNA) in the face with such force I thought she would fall over.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

As a hospice volunteer over 20 years mostly in Detroit nursing homes, I have learned there is no one way of handling dementia issues. For example, I have pretended to be a male hospice patient's deceased wife. Can we all just get along and lighten up? Personally, I have enjoyed impersonating other people sometimes.

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AUGUST 1, 2021

This true story is from my book Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes. When Mamie Wilson (pseudonym) became my hospice patient, she had several unusual qualities that made me wonder. She had the same name as my grandmother, and I had her grandmother's name.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

David is a physician who wrote the book “ Stoned: A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana ” and gave a TED talk on “ A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana ” that was watched over 3 million times. And, David, I’m going to start off with you because you wrote an entire book about this. Eric 06:53 I loved your book.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Frances Shani Parker, Author Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes is available in paperback and e-book editions in America and other countries at online and offline booksellers.

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APRIL 5, 2021

I have been a hospice volunteer for twenty years, most of them in urban nursing homes. Once in high school as part of a school club, I visited a nursing home where I fed a woman jello. Once in high school as part of a school club, I visited a nursing home where I fed a woman jello. Nope, no way!

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

JULY 5, 2021

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Frances Shani Parker, Author Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes is available in paperback and e-book editions in America and other countries at online and offline booksellers.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Frances Shani Parker Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes Frances Shani Parker, Author Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes is available in paperback and e-book editions in America and other countries at online and offline booksellers.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Hoping to inspire a conversation about facing death, he let photographer Joshua Bright take pictures of his last days on Earth at home in hospice care. John Hawkins had a good death.

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JULY 1, 2020

Frances Shani Parker, Author Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes is available in paperback and e-book editions in America and other countries at online and offline booksellers.

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MARCH 1, 2021

Frances Shani Parker, Author Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes is available in paperback and e-book editions in America and other countries at online and offline booksellers.

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MAY 5, 2020

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DECEMBER 12, 2021

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Hospice Nurse Hero

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Being a hospice nurse can leave you feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. If so, then you need these 7 simple ways to get organized for hospice nurses. Unlike working at a hospital or nursing home, you don’t just get to pop back into your patients’ rooms after you leave. Sound familiar?

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

JANUARY 3, 2022

He was admitted immediately and later placed with other AIDS patients in an isolated section of a nursing home. This was my first major introduction to hospice care. Visit Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog and Frances Shani Parker's Website. Based on his appearance and actions, I suspected Jake had AIDS.

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MARCH 6, 2022

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

MAY 8, 2023

Hospitals are crucial, of course, but there's more to nursing than units like the ED, the ICU, med-surg, and telemetry. Nurses nurse the nation in schools, dialysis centers, assisted living, nursing homes, home health, hospice, and public health.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

MAY 3, 2021

Frances Shani Parker, Author Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes is available in paperback and e-book editions in America and other countries at online and offline booksellers.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Her most recent book is Elderhood. There have been nursing homes that have been sued for patient chokes on some food is DNR DNI, and nobody goes to help the patient perform a simple Heimlich because they’re DNR DN I. And sure enough, yeah, we hospice and let her die at home in a couple days, very quietly.

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The Chaplain's Report

JULY 9, 2022

“Helen” is an elderly woman who lives in one of the nicer nursing homes in my area. While she has remained a staunch Catholic, the “big book” of Alcoholics Anonymous holds a place in her heart as well. I used to be worried about what I would say to or do with those I saw on hospice.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

As a hospice volunteer, I noticed that many patients held strong beliefs about miracles that were important to them when making decisions about their health care. Frances Shani Parker's Website Frances Shani Parker, Author "Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes" [link] Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog [link].

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

JUNE 3, 2020

Frances Shani Parker, Author Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes is available in paperback and e-book editions in America and other countries at online and offline booksellers.

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GeriPal

MARCH 31, 2022

Links to essays and books by Marilyn McEntyre. She is written a number of books, including one that’s probably most relevant to today. She also teaches people who are interested in writing their own books. He’s also a part-time hospice and palliative care clinician. AlexSmithMD. Is that right, Marilyn?

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

AUGUST 2, 2020

The Internet, numerous senior organizations such as AARP , senior publications, books, videos, and anti-bullying workshops for senior communities can provide significantly helpful information regarding the creation of an anti-bullying culture. But with a vulnerable population living in a culture of bullying, is it really?

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

JANUARY 10, 2021

During my years as a hospice volunteer, I have spoken to many caregivers. These are three examples from my book Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes. Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes" [link] Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog [link].

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We additionally discussed hospice care as an option for care that might follow the trial of rehabilitation. Why do we not have more palliative care access in nursing homes? Many of them aren’t enrolled in hospice before they die. Home with a 75 year old mom who can’t really move them?

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

or too much ancient history, but you know, like, like a lot of nurses, when I became an RN, I was told you gotta work in acute care. You gotta take all this book, learning that you’ve gotten at school and you’ve gotta put it to use in the real world, in acute care, in the hospital setting in order to really hone your skills.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

On today’s podcast we talk with Jason Karlawish, who we’ve had on previously talking about his book The Problem of Alzheimer’s and with Aaron Kesselhim, to discuss FDA approval of Aducanumab , as well as frequent guest and host Ken Covinsky. . And by the way, Harvey has a brand new book out Dignity and Care. Wait, what ? .

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 21, 2022

Wendy’s background is in emergency nursing and community based skilled home health as well as palliative and hospice care and has laid ground for her service as senior clinical content writer and subject matter expert here at home care pulse. So that kind of naturally made me wanna do home health.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 22 (5):392-400 / PMID: 32740304. And by the way, Harvey has a brand new book out Dignity and Care. Integration of Person-Centered Narratives Into the Electronic Health Record: Study Protocol. Bennett, C.R., What Mattered Then, Now, and Always: Illness Narratives From Persons of Color.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

He wants to know what do you guys think about the effect of private equity on hospice and long-term care? Eric: One out of six hospices, so there is financial concern, not just again with hospices, nursing homes, and now physician groups. ” Eric: Well, Alex and I love him. And what is their motivation, Eric?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home. There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers.

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